TECH ISTANBUL
GROWTH
Apply to Tech Istanbul Growth, complete your PoC with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, and test your product with 16 million Istanbulites!
What is Tech Istanbul Growth?
It is an entrepreneurship program that brings together advanced-stage startups with technology-based products addressing the needs of Istanbul with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, its affiliates, and subsidiaries, offering PoC opportunities. The program provides startups with the chance to test their technological products with IMM, reaching 16 million residents of Istanbul.
Who can apply?
It is open to applications from all startups that have market-ready technological products and develop solutions for Istanbul's urban challenges in the areas of mobility, environment & energy, mobile technologies, and digital transformation.
What Awaits You in the Program?
What Did Our Initiatives Say?
Program Calendar
7 Eylül 2025
Ekim 2025
Eylül 2025
Ekim-Aralık 2025
Ekim 2025
January, 2026
Jury Process
Application Deadline
Demo Day
PoC Process
PoC Selection Process
Meeting with IMM, Subsidiaries and Affiliates
Application Deadline
7 Eylül 2025
Demo Day
PoC Process
PoC Selection Process
Meeting with IMM, its Subsidiaries and Affiliates
Jury Process
January, 2026
Ekim-Aralık 2025
Ekim 2025
Ekim 2025
Eylül 2025
Our Verticals
Startups that can collaborate with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, its affiliates, and subsidiaries in the following verticals are welcome to apply.
Mobility
- Smart Transportation and Micro Mobility Solutions
- Traffic Forecasting and Planning Forecasting Technologies
- Parking and Charging Station Solutions
- AI Based Pedestrian & Vehicle Mobility Maps
- Road Maintenance and Infrastructure Technologies
- Innovative Solutions in Public Transportation
- Sharing Economy and Transportation Solutions
- Autonomous Vehicles & Autonomous Vehicle Solutions
- Logistics and Fleet Management Technologies
Environment and Energy
- Smart City and Infrastructure Technologies
- Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technologies
- Sustainable Environmental Technologies
- Security and Fire Protection Technologies
- Park and Garden Technologies
- Clean Environment & Water Technologies
- Environmental Monitoring and Protection Technologies
- Climate Technologies
Mobile Technologies
- Transportation and Accommodation Applications
- Education and Personal Development Applications
- Family and Child Applications
- Healthy Living and Wellbeing Applications
- Social Life and Pet Applications
- Finance and Insurance Applications
- Mobile Games
Digital Transformation
- Corporate Solutions
- Information & Communication Technologies
- Operations Management Technologies
- Facility Management Systems
- Human Resource Management Technologies
- Data Management and Analytics Technologies
- Financial Solutions
- Cybersecurity Solutions
- Call Center Management Technologies
Tech Istanbul Demo Day ’25
16
Startup Presenting on Stage
20
PoC
30
Foyer Startups
380
Physical Participant
1.100
Online Views
PoCs from Past Programs
Tech Istanbul Growth in Numbers
4
Program
850+
Application
151
Startups Brought Together with IMM
58
Finished PoC